Ecosystem Approach Community of Practice: BiodiversityResearchEnvironment

WORK IN PROGRESS. MUST NOT BE USED FOR ANY OTHER WORK.

This VREVirtual Research Environment. allows to discover occurrence data, view their metadata, and select data for download and-or display in a GISViewer. The intended purpose is to feed biodiversity datasets to other VREs, in particular for analysis in the existing AquaMaps, the NameReconciliation VREVirtual Research Environment., and the Ecological Modeling VREVirtual Research Environment..

Product

It will allow to build datasets via a number of criteria, in particular taxonomic names; to discard bad quality or doubful data; to annotate data for further corrections, or display in a viewer a.

It can be accessed here: https://i-marine.d4science.org/group/biodiversityresearchenvironment

Priority to CoPCommunity of Practice.

List proposed solution priority following the iMarine Board priority setting criteria:

Ecology, modeling, biogeography, conservation;

• Academia, NGO, Governemental agencies;
• On project basis, as part of technological support;
• Structural allocation of resources;
• Referred in DoW;
• Business Cases;
• How does the proposed action generally support sustainability aspects;
• How consistent it is with EC regulations/strategies (eg INSPIRE);
• Re-usability – benefits – compatibility;

Parentage

Relation to CoPCommunity of Practice. Software

Relation to D4S technologies

Productivity

Are the proposed measures effective?

Does it reduce a known workload?

Presentation

How must the component be delivered to users? (UI Design / on-line help / training material / support)

Policy

Are there any policies available that describe data access and sharing?

Have the Copyright / attribution / metadata / legal aspects been addressed from a user and technology perspective?